09.00

Welcome Coffee

09.30

Opening of the Symposium 
Prof. Kathrin Fenner, Eawag Dübendorf and University of Zürich
Chair of the SCS Section Chemistry and the Environment
Prof. Falko Schlottig, FHNW
Director of School of Life Sciences
Prof. Ioannis Katsogiannis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
President EuChemS Section Chemistry & Environment

10.00

Prof. Lucy Carpenter, University of York, UK
«Atmospheric Chemistry On and Over the Ocean»

10.45

Prof. Tamara Galloway, University of Exeter, UK
«Microplastic and Global Boundary Threads»

11.30

Dr. Michael Sander, ETH Zürich, CH
«From Persistence to Desistance: on the Environmental Fate of Biodegradable Polymers»

12.15

Lunch

13.00

SCS General Assembly

13.30

Prof. Wendy Queen, EPFL Lausanne, CH
«The Design of Highly Stable MOF/Polymer Composites for the Extraction of Metal Ions from Complex Aqueous Mixtures»

14.15

Prof. Arturo Keller, UC Santa Barbara, USA
«Elucidating Crop Plant Response to Engineered Nanomaterials Using Metabolomics and Proteomics»

15.00

Coffee Break

15.30

Dr. Claudio Screpanti, Syngenta, CH
«Crop Protection 2.0: Chemical Innovation to Support Sustainable Agriculture»

16.15

Dr. Bettina Hitzfeld, Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
«Environmental Chemistry: Future Challenges»

17.00

Closing Remark
Aperitif